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A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
»rank: 754
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Monty Python's Spamalot (2005 Original Broadway Cast)
»rank: 1053
0ur Review: :As gleefully silly yet wickedly smart as the beloved British comedy troupe and their 1975 cinematic savaging of the Arthurian legend that inspired it, this adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by MP's Eric ldle and longtime musical co-conspirator John Du Prez has much more on its feverish agenda than merely trashing King Arthur and firmly upending his Round Table. The film's plot remains largely intact, but its core songs ('Knights of the Round Table,' ...
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A Wonderful World
»rank: 1842
0ur Review: :Never mind the project's odd couple, 'He's got a girlfriend; so does she' marketing shuck. This is a musical love affair in all its splendor. Produced by the seemingly chameleonic producer T Bone Burnett (who previously revived traditional bluegrass with spectacular success on 0 Brother, Where Art Thou?), the septuagenarian legend and his unlikely contemporary foil affectionately court a dozen songs from the Louis Armstrong repertoire with the warmth and natural grace that have been a deceptively ...
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Hymns of the 49th Parallel
»rank: 1393
0ur Review: :Hymns of the 49th Parallel fulfills k.d. lang’s longstanding desire to create a Canadian songbook. 0n the album, her first for Nonesuch Records, she pays homage to fellow Canadian artists including Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Jane Siberry, Ron Sexsmith, and Bruce Cockburn. :Was it homesickness that compelled longtime Los Angeles resident k.d. lang to fashion her one-woman campaign for north-of-the-border nationalism, or just plain good sense? All Canadian content has long been a mainstay ...
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Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella Fitzgerald
»rank: 1198
0ur Review: :Hymns of the 49th Parallel fulfills k.d. lang’s longstanding desire to create a Canadian songbook. 0n the album, her first for Nonesuch Records, she pays homage to fellow Canadian artists including Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Jane Siberry, Ron Sexsmith, and Bruce Cockburn. :Was it homesickness that compelled longtime Los Angeles resident k.d. lang to fashion her one-woman campaign for north-of-the-border nationalism, or just plain good sense? All Canadian content has long been a mainstay ...
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Patsy Cline - The Definitive Collection
»rank: 932
0ur Review: :Hymns of the 49th Parallel fulfills k.d. lang’s longstanding desire to create a Canadian songbook. 0n the album, her first for Nonesuch Records, she pays homage to fellow Canadian artists including Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Jane Siberry, Ron Sexsmith, and Bruce Cockburn. :Was it homesickness that compelled longtime Los Angeles resident k.d. lang to fashion her one-woman campaign for north-of-the-border nationalism, or just plain good sense? All Canadian content has long been a mainstay ...
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The Phantom of the Opera (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
»rank: 1656
0ur Review: :2 CD Deluxe Collector's Edition, contains all of the music from the single disc plus other original score material featured in the film. :For better or worse, Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation of Gaston Leroux's gothic horror/romance novel has done for stage musicals what Spielberg's Jaws did for fish stories, with worldwide sales of its original cast album approaching 25 million. While director Joel Schumacher's film turns on his typically ambitious visual verve, its new film soundtrack ...
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Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album
»rank: 778
0ur Review: :Talk about smooth! Tony Bennett is the very definition of the word. Snowfall practically renders every other version of the songs included here null and void. Even 'White Christmas' sounds better in Tony's hands than it did in Bing's. lt could be because Bennett's warmth extends not only from the quality of those pipes but his delivery. How many other grown men do you know who could get away with 'My Favorite Things'? But it goes ...
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Putumayo Presents: Jazz & Blues Christmas
»rank: 750
0ur Review: :Putumayo delivers the perfect package of soulful jazz and blues to liven up the holiday season. A Jazz & Blues Christmas offers a memorable array of classic holiday songs by jazz and blues legends and lesser-known artists. B.B. King opens the album with 'Christmas Celebration,' a rollicking, up-tempo tune cheerfully punctuated with bursts of brass from an energetic horn section. Ray Charles tells the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to a soulful beat. Ramsey Lewis ...
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West Side Story
»rank: 2006
from: Sony
0ur Review: :Leonard Bernstein's musical update of Romeo and Juliet, with a young Stephen Sondheim's brilliant lyrics, had already galvanized Broadway with its vivid reinvention as a parable of racial intolerance and generational conflict. But director Robert Wise's lavish widescreen presentation broke fresh ground by taking the story to its most impressionable audience, the teenagers who could identify directly with Tony and Maria, and opened up Jerome Robbins's kinetic choreography through bravura camera work. The original soundtrack album was ...
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